Girl, 17, duped into marrying drug user

The parents of a 17-year-old girl of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice are distressed that they got her married to a 25-year-old US-based Guyanese, who has turned out to be a drug user.

The girl’s mother related that the man got angry and threatened to kill her daughter after she found his cocaine a few nights after the wedding and threw it away. She was staying with his relatives at Skeldon at the time.

The girl related that the man told her “this drug is